Together

So everyone is leaving Florida's coast at this point, but things seem to be shifting quite a bit with this hurricane.  It certainly hasn't been barreling anywhere.  It's sort of meandering.  Yes, it's a menacing sort of meandering, but to say it is barreling is to say it is moving in one direction with purpose.  And that's clearly not the case here.  Forecasters have seriously given up at this point, which I find amusing - usually they at least give you a pinpoint forecasted destination for landfall, but by this day, the entire meteorological industry is throwing their collective hands in the air and saying, "Hey, just everyone be ready.  Or maybe not.  Whatever!"

Playing it safe, Nana and Ye-Ye have come up from Florida and are with us now.  When they were leaving, the landfall destination was Daytona.  When they arrived here, the landfall destination was southern Florida, somewhere around West Palm Beach.  And not much later than that, landfall was predicted somewhere in South Carolina.

Still, the Florida coast was in danger of being "grazed," or "scraped," depending on your vocabulary, and the people along the coast would be wise to come inland a bit.  If anything, it's a great chance to visit with relatives, right?

Meanwhile our other grandparents are having a great time ... in Minnesota!

Seriously, I'm jealous.  They've been at the House on the Rock this week and the Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota.  Now this is a destination worth going to, a glorious huge majestic sphere of twine.  They've been sending us pictures of these destinations, and we're loving it here.  If you want to evacuate to somewhere far off and odd, that's the best location I can think of.

It was a shorter school day today with an early release, which was just fine for Madison.  Yesterday, she got to school an hour early, wanting to get there to spend some extra time with her math teacher learning what it was they were being taught this week.  She set the alarm early (and had us up earlier too), and actually went to school an hour early to go to an extra math session.  This was very industrious of her, so much so that Daddy got her some music that she's been wanting.

Speaking of music, Madison has been playing her piano, doing practice as well on the selections her instructor has asked her to do.  But she's also picked - I think - a piano piece to play at Christmas.  I think she's going to play, "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas."  At least, I'm printing the music sheets for that.  It's great printing all these music sheets that she can try out, and hearing them.  Hopefully we'll be hearing more from "The Corpse Bride" again too, as we're about to go into September.  Daddy and Mommy are ready to put the fall decorations up.  Sure, the temperature is kind of warm and it's still technically summer.   But we're all ready to move on here!

Here's the Forkies that Madison and Nana created.  Nana's is to the left and Madison made the other two on the right.  We had the supplies leftover from this past Wednesday night, so we thought it would be fun for Madison to try her hand at creating a Forky.  And why not have Nana try to, right?  They both signed their names to the bottom of the feet there for posterity, a nice collection of Forkies!

We talked a lot tonight with Nana and Ba-Ba, and had a nice meal together.  We're eating soup, mainly because this is something that Ba-Ba can have without upsetting his tummy too much.  He's still super thin, and we've got to hopefully see about getting some weight on him.  He's doing his best, and his spirits are upbeat as always.  This will be a battle he's facing, but Mommy has done this before and made it just fine.  We'll keep with him through it all, and we'll keep praying.  That's what we did tonight after reading, and after all the other fun nightly rituals.  It's great to have the family in the house.  We'll have a good day tomorrow together, because that's how we're going to do things:  together.